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“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.”

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Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

“The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.”

Wells Mean Made Poet Makers

Author:Theophile Gautier

“There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.”

Objects Poet Poetic Makers

Author:W. H. Auden

“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time.”

Thinking Way Two Different Lines Poet Sentences Two Things Prose Makers

Author:Billy Collins